Konrad Morgen served as a judge and SS policeman who used legal mechanisms to investigate and prosecute members of the SS. He pursued approximately 200 individuals, including high-ranking officials and concentration camp commandants, personally arresting five and securing executions for two. He confronted notorious figures such as Oskar Dirlewanger, Karl-Otto Koch and Ilse Koch, Hermann Fegelein, Amon Goth and even investigated Adolf Eichmann and corruption at Auschwitz. He operated within the perverse Nazi judicial system, taking extreme personal risks to apply remnants of law and secure some measure of justice amid systemic corruption and atrocity.
Konrad Morgen, with the face of a gray-haired office worker or a high school nerd, who did not immediately appear intimidating even when squeezed into his SS uniform, bears no physical resemblance to the tough fictional detective Bernie Gunther, created by the late writer Philip Kerr, who also investigated crimes from within the police system of the Third Reich. But that man with the bottle-bottom glasses and the air of a bland bureaucrat was someone real.
A judge and SS policeman who lived an extremely dangerous life acting against his own comrades on the razor's edge of the perverse Nazi judicial system and using what remained of the law in the corrupt and amoral Hitlerian universe to investigate and bring to justice a whopping 200 members of the organization. Morgen's list includes high-ranking officials and even concentration camp commandants, the elite of the SS, of whom he personally arrested five, two of whom were executed.
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